Word: lions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total Japanese tonnage. But the chief effect of Japan's naval ambitions is to encourage qualitative rather than quantitative competition from the other powers. Example: Having heard rumors that Japan is building two giant battleships of between 40,000 and 46,000 tons, the British forthwith planned the Lion and Temeraire, each 40,000 tons, and the U. S. drew plans for two 45,000-ton battleships, most powerful in history...
Callahan, Columbia leader, triumphed in the 300-yard individual medley in 3:34.2, a new National Intercollegiate mark. The old record of 3:39.6 was set by former Yale leader Macionis in 1936. The Lion captain beat Al Van de Weghe, Princeton star by two yards in the final, after each had won his heat in the preliminaries. Ed Kent, Columbia; Frank Ferguson, Colgate; Huldane Wilson, Yale and Barnett Phillips, Yale finished in that order behind the leaders. This is the first year that the 300 individual medley has been contested in the League championships, and Callahan's record should...
Sally Rand's "Rancherettes" will doubtless obtain a lion's share of the publicity given the San Francisco Exposition, if only because of their pictorial value; but nevertheless the colossal island built into the Pacific Ocean does contain other elements of interest. Contribution to the more orthodox art exhibits has been made by Harvard's Fogg Museum, and Langdon Warner, Curator of the Oriental Department, has been made Director of Fine Arts in the Fair's "Division of Pacific Cultures." Just back from a year's travel in the Orient, Mr. Warner has so organized the display of Pacific culture...
Harvard's basketball team has a chance--just a bare one--of interrupting the steady stream of E.I.L. defeats which have been pinned on them during this winter's campaign as they journey to New York to face a Columbia Lion which still has a mathematical possibility of tying the Dartmouth Indians for the League crown...
Confronted by a statement of Sid Luckman, Columbia grid star and prospective chorine, that "out maidens are fairer, we're all fairer," Bobby Green '39 and Cliff Wilson '39 pronounced unanimously, "Raw, Lion...